Survive vs Cope - What's the difference?
survive | cope |
Of a person, to continue to live; to remain alive.
Of an object or concept, to continue to exist.
To live longer than; to outlive.
* Shakespeare
* 1817 , (Walter Scott), Rob Roy , X:
To live past a life-threatening event.
(sports) Of a team, to avoid relegation or demotion to a lower division or league.
To deal effectively with something difficult.
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To cut and form a mitred joint in wood or metal.
(falconry) To clip the beak or talons of a bird.
A long, loose cloak worn by a priest or bishop on ceremonial occasions.
* Bishop Burnet
*1890 , (Oscar Wilde), The Picture of Dorian Gray , ch. XI:
*:He possessed a gorgeous cope of crimson silk and gold-thread damask, figured with a repeating pattern of golden pomegranates set in six-petalled formal blossoms, beyond which on either side was the pine-apple device wrought in seed-pearls.
Any covering such as a canopy or a mantle.
The "vault" or "canopy" of the skies, heavens etc.
* Milton
*, II.12:
(construction) A covering piece on top of a wall exposed to the weather, usually made of metal, masonry, or stone and sloped to carry off water.
(foundry) The top part of a sand casting mold.
An ancient tribute due to the lord of the soil, out of the lead mines in Derbyshire, England.
To cover (a joint or structure) with coping.
To form a cope or arch; to bend or arch; to bow.
* Holland
(obsolete) To bargain for; to buy.
(obsolete) To exchange or barter.
(obsolete) To make return for; to requite; to repay.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To match oneself against; to meet; to encounter.
* Shakespeare
* Shakespeare
* Philips
(obsolete) To encounter; to meet; to have to do with.
* Shakespeare
In intransitive terms the difference between survive and cope
is that survive is of an object or concept, to continue to exist while cope is to form a cope or arch; to bend or arch; to bow.In transitive terms the difference between survive and cope
is that survive is to live past a life-threatening event while cope is to cover (a joint or structure) with coping.As a noun cope is
a long, loose cloak worn by a priest or bishop on ceremonial occasions.survive
English
Verb
(surviv)- His children survived''' him; he was '''survived by his children.
- I'll assure her of / Her widowhood, be it that she survive me, / In all my lands and leases whatsoever.
- ‘I am afraid, as will happen in other cases, the treaty of alliance has survived the amicable dispositions in which it had its origin.’
- He did not survive the accident.
Synonyms
* (l) * (live longer than) outliveAntonyms
* (live longer than) predeceaseExternal links
* *Anagrams
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English
Etymology 1
From (etyl)Verb
(cop)- I thought I would never be able to cope with life after the amputation, but I have learned how to be happy again.
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Synonyms
* (to deal effectively with) handle, manage, withstandEtymology 2
From (etyl)Noun
(en noun)- a hundred and sixty priests all in their copes
- the starry cope of heaven
- Who perceiveth and seeth himselfe placed here,farthest from heavens coape , with those creatures, that are the worst of the three conditions; and yet dareth imaginarily place himselfe above the circle of the Moone, and reduce heaven under his feet.
- (Knight)
- (De Colange)
Verb
(cop)- Some bending down and coping to ward the earth.
Etymology 3
Verb
(cop)- (Spenser)
- Three thousand ducats due unto the Jew, / We freely cope your courteous pains withal.
- I love to cope him in these sullen fits.
- They say he yesterday coped Hector in the battle, and struck him down.
- Host coped with host, dire was the battle.
- Horatio, thou art e'en as just a man / As e'er my conversation coped withal.